[Verse 1]
There's a mind that never settles, always reaching past the frame,
A thousand open questions and a hunger hard to name,
You speak and something shifts in the room before you're done,
The kind of honest that cuts clean, like winter light and sun,
You carry something ancient in the way you chase the truth,
A philosopher inside the chest who never needed proof,
They see the brightness that you bring, the wit, the open door,
But miss the mountain underneath, the weight you're holding for

[PreChorus]
And you've learned to keep it buried, learned to make it look like grace,
But the depth of what you carry is the most extraordinary place

[Chorus]
Chanson, you are more than what the surface lets them see,
You're the tide behind the stillness, you're the root beneath the tree,
Every road you've walked alone has carved you something true,
Chanson, the world was written wider just to make room for you

[Verse 2]
There's a vault behind your ribcage where you store the things that sting,
Where trust has been a lesson paid in the cost of opening,
You've loved with all the patience of the mountain in the cold,
A quiet kind of devotion that gets better as it grows old,
You don't rush to give your heart away, you take your time, you weigh,
But when you love, it's bedrock, it's not going anywhere,
You've mistaken all that caution for a wall you built from fear,
When really it's the temple where you hold what you hold dear

[PreChorus]
And you've learned to keep it buried, learned to make it look like grace,
But the depth of what you carry is the most extraordinary place

[Chorus]
Chanson, you are more than what the surface lets them see,
You're the tide behind the stillness, you're the root beneath the tree,
Every road you've walked alone has carved you something true,
Chanson, the world was written wider just to make room for you

[Verse 3]
There are battles fought in silence where no one hears the cost,
The times you held the pieces when you thought the thread was lost,
You've questioned your own value like it had to be re-earned,
Looked outside to find the proof of what your inside always knew,
But every time you rose again, you built on something real,
Not borrowed faith or borrowed ground, but everything you feel,
The strength that lives inside you didn't come from easy days,
It was forged in all the fire and the long and winding maze

[PreChorus]
You don't need to keep on proving what was never up for doubt,
There's a light that lives inside you that was never going out

[Chorus]
Chanson, you are more than what the surface lets them see,
You're the tide behind the stillness, you're the root beneath the tree,
Every road you've walked alone has carved you something true,
Chanson, the world was written wider just to make room for you

[Verse 4]
You were born at the edge of winter where the year runs out of night,
Where the dark gives way to something, where the solstice turns to light,
And that's the truth of who you are, the turning, not the fall,
The one who transforms everything by daring to feel it all,
Your mind moves like a current, sees the things that others miss,
Finds the meaning in the fracture, finds the sacred in the abyss,
You are a home for other people, a safe place, a steady hand,
Now let yourself be sheltered by the grace of who you am

[Bridge]
You were never meant to be smaller than the sky you dreamed beneath,
You were never meant to earn the love that's already underneath,
Let the questions be the compass, let the knowing be enough,
You were written in the heavens long before the world got tough

[Outro]
So rest inside the truth of it, let every doubt unwind,
You are whole, you are enough, you are one of a kind,
The stars that held the night you came have not forgotten you,
Chanson, they are still right there, still carrying you through